Henning Mankell (Writer)
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Works
Lone Wolves & Dragon Tattoos: How Scandinavian Crime Fiction Conquered the World
Lone Wolves & Dragon Tattoos traces the evolution of Nordic crime fiction, from its humble beginnings with the Martin Beck novels of the 1960s straight through to the worldwide phenomenon of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, featuring interviews with some of the actors, writers and producers who bring these mysteries to life on-screen.
Release Date2011-02-28
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The dead still have a name
In 2010 the Freedom Flotilla attempts to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. In international waters the flotilla is attacked by the Israeli army and 9 people are killed. 9 anonymous people. But the dead still have a name. In 2014 Gaza is attacked by Israel. 2131 Palestinians are killed, among them 513 children. 513 dead children. But the dead children still have names. The film is about a Jewish person who has made a political journey from the Vietnam war to Gaza. This person is the paediatrician Henry Ascher, who lost his fathers entire family in the Holocaust.
Release Date2015-05-08
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count6
Nachtstudio
Release Date1997-09-03
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Through the Night with...
Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly in France or Germany. The title of the French version is Au cœur de la nuit. Two Celebrities spend an filmed evening together. One of them is the host who sets the location and the program. There is no moderator.
Release Date2002-05-10
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
NDR Kultur – Das Journal
Release Date2002-04-29
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Kulturplatz
Release Date2004-09-01
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott
The whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in society. Thus was born the modern detective story. It has been over 50 years since the first book in the series came out and it would only be in the fall of the age that Sjöwall Wahlöö was celebrated as the creator of the entire modern detective genre.
Release Date2016-01-04
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Wallander
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.
Release Date2005-01-14
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Episode Count32
Vote Count56
Wallander
This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.
Release Date2008-11-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Vote Count137
Young Wallander
An incendiary hate crime stirs civil unrest, fast-tracking rookie cop Kurt Wallander to detective in this origin story for the popular character.
Release Date2020-09-03
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count6
Vote Count192
The Fifth Woman
The 5th woman unfolds autumn 1994. An elderly man found in a gillrad pitfall impaled to death on the sharp sharpened bamboo poles, ecstatic praise of crows. Shortly afterwards disappears a florist without a trace and he also found executed in the forest. Kurt Wallander and his colleagues will soon understand that the attacks is all about revenge.
Release Date2002-03-08
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count4
Vote Count10
Danslärarens återkomst
A former policeman is tortured and murdered and his friend and former colleague investigates the case.
Release Date2004-11-05
DepartmentWriting
JobAuthor
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
A Little Horror?
Norwegian scary stories to tell in the dark.
Release Date1973-11-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Mördare utan ansikte
It is winter on the plains of Skåne coast. Farmer woken gets up and goes over to the neighboring farm. The sight that meets him is terrible. His neighbor John Lövgren lying on the floor with broken face. His wife Mary is sitting on a chair with a noose around his neck and her nightgown nersölat of blood. Before she dies in the hospital, she has time to say a word as soon leak out into the media, "Foreign" Inspector Kurt Wallander in Ystad police leading the investigation will soon receive anonymous threats by telephone. When the city's refugee camp on fire and a Somali refugee murdered, he understands that those who threatened him serious. And realize that it is now a race against time. And, against a ruthless opponent. A killer with no face ...
Release Date1995-09-03
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count4
Vote Count6
Hundarna i Riga
Release Date1996-11-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Wallander: Sidetracked
It is autumn and the people in the otherwise peaceful small town Ystad settle down. But for Kurt Wallander broken idyll of a young woman burned to death in a cornfield. Soon after hitting a serial killer with a series of increasingly brutal murder. What is the relationship between a retired attorney general, a successful art dealer and an ordinary petty thief? Why scalp killer his victims?
Release Date2001-10-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count3
Vote Count9
Mannen Som Log
In this adaption of a Henning Mankell novel, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates a case of murder and trade of human organs.
Release Date2003-12-26
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count2
Vote Count10
Wallander - Firewall
Kurt Wallander is thrown into a world he does not master - the computing world. An empty taxi found, heavily bloodstained and battered. Two young girls are taken in for questioning and admits murder of the taxi driver, but does not tell where the body is. The day after a man is found lying dead at an ATM with the bank statement in his hand. Two seemingly different cases, or do they have anything to do with each other? Kurt Wallander is trying to find answers, but he does not recognize himself - he feels unwell, dizzy and is forced to go to hospital.
Release Date2007-01-19
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
Wallander: The Sniper
When a small-time crook is killed by a sniper, Wallander and the Ystad police investigate. Meanwhile, trainee policeman Pontus is forced to reconsider his career.
Release Date2009-12-16
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count12
One Step Behind
Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is believed that Svedberg killed himself but Wallander soon discovers links between Svedberg, the three friends and a fourth person, a young woman in a mental hospital.
Release Date2005-06-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count17
Wallander: The Witness
A girl goes missing somewhere in Ystad. It is obvious that she has seen something terrible and that someone wants her silenced. At the same time, a trial of human traffickers begins.
Release Date2010-07-21
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count13
Wallander: The Trickster
While Kurt Wallander works on a murder case involving a charming yet evil horse dealer who plays on the vulnerability of lonely women, he finds himself romantically involved with a married woman.
Release Date2006-03-15
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count13
Wallander: The Heritage
When Manfred Stjarne is stabbed to death outside the Brada cider factory his wife Claire has inherited - suspicion falls on Polish worker Jan Kowalski, with whose wife Manfred was having an affair, but Jan is found hanged - later evidence suggesting foul play. Benjamin Wilkes, an ex-psychologist who helped Manfred select redundancy candidates, is killed in the same way as Manfred, putting disgruntled ex-Brada employees in the frame, but a third slaying implicates a former patient of Wilkes, who has connections to the Stjarne family. A newly loved-up Isabelle and Pontius start to fool around whilst on surveillance, taking their eye off the ball and allowing this suspect to confront Claire.
Release Date2010-04-21
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count15
Wallander 31 - The Arsonist
When an arsonist is released from prison, the villagers do not want him anywhere near them. Soon they take matters into their hands and Wallander has to investigate whether their fear is justified.
Release Date2013-09-25
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count8
Wallander: Mastermind
Kurt Wallander and the other police officers try to find the connection between a horrible murder that took place in Ystad and the kidnapping of one of the police force's daughters. It also seems someone has infiltrated the police and controls every move the police make.
Release Date2005-12-16
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count28
Wallander 22 - Angel of Death
A choir of young women gives a guest performance in a country church outside Ystad. But when an 18-year-old member of the choir disappears, Wallander is brought in to investigate.
Release Date2010-01-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count14
Wallander: The Troubled Man
Wallander has become a grandfather and is trying to seize the role as good as it goes because he wants to be closer to his daughter Linda and her family. When Linda's father-in-law mysteriously disappears, Wallander is drawn into the case that takes him back in time to the Cold War and the submarine violations in the Stockholm archipelago. At the same time, he's starting to suspect that something is not right with him...
Release Date2013-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count15
Wallander: The Village Idiot
In the second film with Krister Henriksson as Kurt Wallander, a man enters a bank and threatens to blow it up in the air unless his demands are met. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner has the assistance of daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.
Release Date2005-08-03
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count19
Wallander: The Revenge
Kurt Wallander has bought a dream house by the sea, but his peace and quiet is soon shattered when a man is murdered and an explosion in one of Ystad's power grids shuts down the electricity in the whole city.
Release Date2009-01-09
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count18
Wallander: The Photographer
When an American tourist is found murdered after visiting an internationally renowned photographer, her husband believes she was having an affair. Kurt Wallander decides to investigate.
Release Date2006-05-10
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count15
The Pyramid
The film is set in the middle of winter in Ystad and the main character is the middle-aged policeman Kurt Wallander, who this time investigating a drug tangle. It starts with his own goddaughter Eva found dead after taking an overdose. It turns out that heroin is unusually strong and Kurt are now beginning their search for those behind the drugs. But he has a big problem. His boss will not let him look for the person who he suspects has sold the new heroin , but she wants them to look for another drug dealer named Yngve Holm. But Kurt defy the boss's orders and go again and again to Malmo to try to unravel the case. Eventually he gets a hold of the person he suspected. He'll take some photos of him and shows them for their guddotters friend Emma who were drug dealers. She takes Kurt to a friend who claims to have seen the man. The man in the photo is called Heinrich Pasila. Wallander thinks one recognizes Pasila from an earlier murder of guddotterns mother, where the offender is found.
Release Date2007-11-28
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count9
Kennedy's Brain
A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursuit of the truth behind his death.
Release Date2010-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobAuthor
Wallander: The Secret
11-year-old Johannes is found raped and murdered. Investigations lead to a pedophile ring and detective Stefan Lindman's dark secret.
Release Date2006-11-10
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count13
Wallander: The Sad Bird
When a restauranteur is abducted, Wallander's investigation leads him to suspect the Malmö police might be involved.
Release Date2013-10-23
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count12
Wallander: The Ghost
Arson is suspected when a house burns to the ground following a gas explosion, and a man and a woman are found dead. Wallander investigates and uncovers an intricate web of lies.
Release Date2010-03-24
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count13
Wallander: Before the Frost
A fanatical sect is suspected to be behind some horrific violent crimes in Ystad. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner receives assistance from her daughter Linda, a newly-graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman. The first of 32 films with Krister Henriksson as the popular commissioner Kurt Wallander.
Release Date2005-01-13
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count22
The Dogs of Riga
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
Release Date1995-11-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count11
Wallander: The Courier
After the murder of a motorcyclist, an investigation reveals that bikers are being used as drug couriers from Denmark to Sweden and that the killing was part of a cartel power struggle.
Release Date2009-07-22
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count19
Wallander: The Overdose
Krister Henriksson plays the lead role as Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed Commissioner Kurt Wallander at the Ystad Police. After a girl's suicide, they come across a tangle on the track that affects several girls at the same school, a case that deeply affects Linda Wallander. Linda's closest colleague is Detective Stefan Lindman.
Release Date2005-10-12
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count14
Wallander: The Betrayal
A young student reports her mother missing. The next day, the mother's body is found buried in the sand close to the family's house.
Release Date2013-07-24
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count14
Wallander: The Priest
A priest is shot outside a hotel in Ystad and is fighting for his life in hospital. Wallander has no clues to the shooter until he finds out that the priest was having an affair.
Release Date2009-10-21
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count11
Wallander: The Castle Ruins
Kurt Wallander and the team are stumped when they find an old man, Greger Stehn, dead due to poisoning. It appears that Stehn, who looked like a vagrant, was in fact very wealthy.
Release Date2006-08-23
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count14
The Return of the Dancing Master
Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, the less he is sure to have known the man he feels so much indebted to...
Release Date2004-04-08
DepartmentWriting
JobAuthor
Vote Count9
Wallander: The Thief
Homes are being burgled in Ystad and three neighbors form their own vigilante group. Soon Wallander is convinced the group has committed a double murder, although no bodies have been found.
Release Date2009-08-19
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count14
The White Lioness
In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and the case is assigned to Inspector Wallander. Just start research supposedly empty building explodes. An unusual weapon, a transmitter Russian and index finger of a man of color are found in the wreckage of the building ...
Release Date1996-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count9
Wallander: Blood Line
Following an argument with her lover on her boat, a woman is found dead. Wallander and the Ystad police investigate; their inquiries lead them to a farm commune and to an old friend of Linda's.
Release Date2006-10-25
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count15
Wallander: Missing
A girl disappears on her way to school, and suspicion falls on her father who has been fighting for her custody. Wallander's investigation is helped when he visits a woman whom he had arrested when her own daughter disappeared.
Release Date2013-06-19
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count10
Wallander: The Cellist
A Russian cellist is subject to a bomb attack following a performance in Ystad. It turns out that she is a witness in a murder prosecution against a member of the Russian mafia.
Release Date2009-09-16
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count13
Wallander: The African
Kurt Wallander receives a murder case from the Polish police, it turns out that the victim was shot dead on board a train in Sweden. Most of his face is shot away and for Wallander personally the case gets an unexpected turn. His two closest police colleagues are the daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.
Release Date2005-11-16
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count15
Wallander: The Brothers
In the third Wallander film, starring Krister Henriksson, a bestial double murder is investigated in which the victims have been subjected to torture and where many point to the act of revenge. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner has the assistance of daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.
Release Date2005-09-07
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count16
Wallander: The Loss
A young woman is found dead in Ystad. When the police begin the case, they are told that the woman came from Moldova and that she worked as a prostitute in Sweden. Kurt, who leads the case, decides to seek out the woman's family in Moldova. When he returns to Sweden, he is involved in a car accident and takes a leave of absence from work. Around the same time, Kurt finds where his forgetfulness comes from.
Release Date2013-08-23
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count10
Wallander: The Container Lorry
A semi-trailer found dumped and full of dead people leads Kurt Wallander and his team to a convent where the nuns have been assisting illegal refugees into Sweden via Poland.
Release Date2006-07-19
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count15
Wallander: The Guilt
When a young boy disappears from pre-school, Wallander joins a desperate search to find him. Suspicions immediately fall on a pedophile recently released from prison.
Release Date2009-06-17
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count15
Wallander: The Leak
The seemingly random murder of a jogger in woodland and the detonation of car bombs in central Ystad are but diversions to busy the police whilst a security van are robbed of 15 million kroner. Isabelle and Portus witness this and give chase but are attacked by the criminals and hospitalized. Given the security firm's meticulous contingency plan Wallander suspects a leak from the inside and aims for Micke Sterner, a compulsive gambler and the only staff member to know the encoded transit schedules. But some private sleuthing by over-worked Svartman, who has found the robbers' den, and Wallander's suspicions of an ex-cop turned security officer with connections to the firm provide the real break-through.
Release Date2009-11-18
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count13
Wallander: The Joker
When a woman is murdered outside her restaurant in front of her eight-year-old daughter, Wallander and his team link the death to a restaurant mafia.
Release Date2006-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count15
Wallander: The Collector
A young woman is killed and robbed in her apartment. The trail leads to her indebted ex-boyfriend, a bouncer. In the investigation, the police officer Pontus notices that his colleague is nervous. Isabell carries around a dark secret: one of the suspects, in this case, has a means of pressure against her in her hand. Commissioner Wallander has a great deal on the capable young policewoman, whose loyalty to her fatherly superior is subjected to a hard test of endurance.
Release Date2010-06-10
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count12
Afternoon Encounter
She wants a divorce, a cleaning prior to death - but he refuses. Here’s an old couple that can’t stand each other, other than as memories. The film is based on a radio play script.
Release Date2017-01-29
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Nelio's Story
Based on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family during a time of civil war. A wounded Nelio is found by a baker in the capital Mapouto; refusing medical treatment, the boy instead asks for sanctuary so he can tell his terrible tale. This he proceeds to do, starting with how the fighters arrived in his village and slaughtered many, to his captivity, his escape and his teaming with other orphaned street urchins to become their leader in survival.
Release Date1998-07-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
Nattbok
A portrait of a day in Paris shown from the perspective of the sanitation worker.
Release Date1996-02-04
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
The Race
The elusive dream that brings many people to the horse-racecourse.
Release Date1981-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Etterfølgeren
Release Date1997-08-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter